Head of UNDRR's message on International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction
![Head of UNDRR Mami Mizutori for IDDRR 2022](/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_16_9/public/2022-10/Screenshot%202022-10-11%20142519-min.png.jpg?itok=XscwhzUi)
Survival is the most basic of all human instincts. Yet millions of people cannot survive because they are not warned of the impending disasters.
Today, one-third of the world’s population, mainly in the least developed countries and small island developing states, are not covered by disaster early warning systems.
In Africa, it is even worse: 60 per cent of people lack coverage.
This is unacceptable.
Early warning and early action save lives.
On this year’s International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, I call on all countries to implement Target G of the Sendai Framework to increase access to multi-hazard early warning systems and risk information.
Together, we can achieve the global goal set by the UN Secretary-General that every person on the planet is covered by an early warning system within the next 5 years.
We can, and we must, stop hazards from becoming disasters, and put the world on a path to Zero Climate Disasters.
Thank you.